package de.spieleck.app.cngram ;
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/*
NGramJ - n-gram based text classification
Copyright (C) 2001- Frank S. Nestel (frank at spieleck.de)
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*/
/**
* A way to measure the distance between two ngram profiles.
*
* @author frank nestel
* @author $Author: nestefan $
* @version $Revision: 2 $ $Date: 2006-03-27 23:00:21 +0200 (Mo, 27 Mrz 2006) $ $Author: nestefan $
*/
public interface NGramMetric
{
/**
* Return the difference between two profiles.
* @return 0.0 profiles considered identical, > 0 otherwise; some implementations are limited to a maximum difference of 1.0.
*/
public double diff( NGramProfile p1 , NGramProfile p2 ) ;
}